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Llanllyfni

Llanllyfni is a village and a community in Gwynedd, Wales.

Llanllyfni
Llanllyfni · Geoff Charles
The place

Llanllyfni is a village and a community in Gwynedd, Wales. It is in the historic county of Caernarfonshire. The community consists of the villages of Drws-y-coed, Nantlle, Nasareth, Nebo, Penygroes, Talysarn and the village of Llanllyfni itself. Penygroes, Llanllyfni and Talysarn are almost conjoined. As an electoral ward the 2011 census recorded a population of 1256. It is a largely Welsh-speaking village as 85% of the villagers speak Welsh as their first language. The community covers 43 square kilometres.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llanllyfni

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Glynllifon

    Glynllifon is an old estate on the main A499 road between Pwllheli and Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Wales, near the village of Llandwrog. It formerly belonged to the Barons Newborough.

    3.5 km · large country house in Carmarthenshire · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Llanllyfni

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 101 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 118 km · Manchester (MAN), 138 km
Stations
Penygroes railway station, 900 m · Groeslon railway station, 3.7 km · Nantlle railway station, 1.8 km
  • Liverpool → Llanllyfni
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £13–17
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Llanllyfni
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £17–23
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llanllyfni
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llanllyfni

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Llanllyfni. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    209 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    287 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    322 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    332 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    340 km

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